Arnold M. Boe was born in 1920 in Michigan. He resided in Wayne County, Michigan prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on October 20, 1941, prior to the war, in Detroit, Michigan. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Architect and also as Single, without dependents. Arnold served as a Second Lieutenant on B29-5-BW Superfortress "Defiant L-assie" #42-6280, 678th Bomber Squadron, 444th Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. He was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant on July 29, 1943.

Arnold was "Killed In Action" when his B-29, while on a bombing mission over Northern China, struck a mountainside near Fuling, China during the war. He was originally interred overseas and was later repatriated in the USA on November 2, 1949. He is now buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri in a common grave with his crew.

He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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